As we celebrate our 50 year anniversary in 2023, our DMA Engineers team uncovered a time capsule in the office with the secret to our future success! Is it buying...

Thank you to our clients and partners who helped us celebrate a very special milestone in our history – 50-years of DMA. It was a great opportunity to look back...

After working on the design and delivery of the Townsville University Hospital Redevelopment from 2009 – 2017, we’re excited to be back on site as part of the Cox Architecture…

In 2021, Urban Utilities and the City of Gold Coast introduced new ‘Simpler Pricing’ models* for water and sewerage meter services for their non-residential customer. They stated that their reason…

Something Magic is brewing in East Brisbane! It doesn’t look like much now, but this East Brisbane location will be transformed into the home of Brisbane’s newest brewing company, Future…

Ways of designing aged care that feels like home and can better meet people’s needs in a future pandemic was the challenge set to designers, innovators, planners and progressive providers…

In Australia in February 2018, the Building Confidence Report was released. The report highlighted the lack of clear guidance for performance solutions in the existing National Construction Code (NCC). Processes…

DMA Engineers and the University of Queensland Healthy Ageing Initiative are thrilled to welcome three event partners on board for our 2021 Longevity by Design charrette. This year, the theme of the…

Can drainage go uphill without causing blockages? It sure can! Recently our Hydraulic design team visited a vacuum drainage manufacturer and Rory O’Malley took this video to demonstrate how it works….

DMA Engineers and the University of Queensland Healthy Ageing Initiative are thrilled to be bringing back our industry-wide collaborative workshop Longevity by Design in 2021. In 2021, participants will again be invited to…

Selecting lighting fixtures for construction projects can be a complex task. The number of product choices in the market is constantly increasing, but comparing these products is rarely just a…

By Clyde Pellew, Principal Electrical Engineer Humans first started using copper some 10,000 years ago. For a long time it was the only known and used metal, and after its…

DMA Engineers Managing Director Russell Lamb has announced that DMA Engineers are sponsoring the Design Excellence Award at the 2020 Property Council of Australia National Retirement Living Awards. The National Retirement…

Longevity by Design, the charrette co-founded by DMA Engineers and the University of Queensland Healthy Ageing Initiative to challenge the future of Senior Living Design, has won the 2020 Future…

DMA Engineers, together with our founding partner The University of Queensland Healthy Ageing Initiative, have been named a finalist in the research category of the 2020 Future of Ageing Awards…

By Clyde Pellew, Principal Electrical Engineer Just before midnight on August 2011, a fire started on the ground floor of a house in Slacks Creek on Brisbane’s southside. It would…

By Russell Lamb  This post first appeared in Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) FUSION magazine in July 2020. To view the original article, click here: Click here to read (head…

Did you know that all new developments must now meet the energy efficiency requirements of NCC 2019 Part J? The aim of NCC is to use less energy for heating,…

We’ll be helping Queensland kids keep cool after they get back to school! ❄️ As part of the Queensland Government’s Cooler Cleaner Schools Program (CSSP), our Electrical team will soon…

This week the team at DMA Engineers farewelled Director Andrew White. After more than 11 years with us, Andrew has decided to pursue other interests and opportunities outside of DMA….

We often say it’s the things you don’t see that matter. No time has that been more accurate than right now as we take steps, along with businesses worldwide, to…

Changing our assumptions of ‘sixtyfive-ism’ and how we design communities and buildings for life in later years is the focus of a unique design challenge being held at The University…

Caboolture Hospital is getting an upgrade and we’re excited to be part of the team delivering it! Caboolture is a rapidly growing area of South East Queensland, with a population…

DMA Engineers and VAE Group won the Best  HVAC Retroft or Upgrade Project Award at the 2019 AIRAH Awards in Sydney last night for the he Mater Private Hospital Air…

Last week DMA Engineers and McCullough Robertson hosted a joint industry breakfast event to provide a forum for discussion about the next stage of the Queensland Safer Buildings checklist. The…

You beauty! DMA Engineers and VAE Group have been named as a finalist in the 2019 AIRAH Award for Best HVAC Retrofit or Upgrade. The award recognises excellence in the…

BRISBANE EVENT. With the new Queensland fire cladding legislation set to come into effect in early 2019, DMA and McCullough Roberson Lawyers will be hosting an interactive breakfast event on…

By Koroush Keshavarz – Senior Associate, Principal Fire Engineer. Combustible cladding is no laughing matter. The dangers of highly flammable cladding were brought to the world’s attention when Grenfell Tower…

By Rory O’Malley – Hydraulic Principal. A couple of weeks ago our hydraulic services team and the Sundale Garden Village project were awarded the 2019 Plumbing & Gas Industry Awards…

The final deadline for eligible building owners in Queensland to organise a combustible cladding audit has passed. We now enter Stage 3 of the process. Learn more about the process…

By Dean Carter – Hydraulic Designer The Queensland Government has passed some new laws relating to plumbing and drainage. Queensland’s plumbers and drainers, builders, developers, local governments, water service providers…

We knew they were pretty good, and now we’ve got the evidence! At the 2019 MPAQ Plumbing and Gas Industry Awards on Friday night, DMA’s Hydraulics team won the AHSCA…

Exceptional career development opportunity for graduate engineer Located in Spring Hill 2 minutes from the Central Station The Company DMA Engineers is a locally-owned building services consulting engineering firm at…

The QBCC cladding assessment is an initiative designed to assist building owners and property managers deliver on their obligations under new legislation introduced on October 1st, 2018. It has received…

A building fire safety risk assessment is an essential process that will occur at least once, if not multiple times, in the lifetime of any large building. Whether commercial, residential…

By Koroush Keshavarz – Principal Fire Engineer The new revision of the sprinkler standard has finally been adopted by the Building Code of Australia. The NCC 2019 Building Code of…

It was announced yesterday that the Queensland Government will provide an extension to the compliance period for Part 2 and Part 3a of its Safer Buildings checklist for combustible cladding….

By Rory O’Malley – Hydraulic Principal Recently we’ve been informed that Queensland Building & Construction Commission (QBCC) and local council authorities are cracking down in their enforcement of rules relating…

By Shawn Sellick – Principal Mechanical Engineer. As building services engineers, we’re often asked by clients to incorporate additional utility meters (over and above the standard authority meters) into multi-tenant retail…

By Russell Lamb – Managing Director. What will hospitals of the future look like? All of us who work in health design have a significant role to play in this,…

BRISBANE EVENT. With the new Queensland fire cladding legislation set to come into effect in early 2019, DMA will be hosting an event on 13 December 2018 to help answer…

We know how hard it can be as a plumbing contractor to find the time to properly review the design documents you receive from your consultants on D&C jobs. But…

By Duncan Stegmann – Electrical Engineer.   Like many technological developments, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology has matured a lot over the years and is now more affordable and accessible than…

By Nicholas Danicic – Electrical Engineer.   “The target market is the sons, daughters and families of the potential residents. Very few elderly people self-admit into aged care and that…

BRISBANE EVENT. What do seniors in Australia truly want from their living environments? This is a question that those of us who work in the built environment and construction sector…

By Andrew White – Director. When we’re engaged to work on a redevelopment, expansion or refurbishment project, one of the first things we do is go hunting for up-to-date copies…

By Shawn Sellick – Principal Mechanical Engineer. I recently worked with a leasing agent who had signed a new tenant to a building lease only to discover that the installed…

By Matthew Lacey – Mechanical Engineer. With rising material costs and a shortage of skilled labour, it’s no surprise that construction costs for commercial and other buildings across Australia are…

By Rory O'Malley - Hydraulic Principal/Senior Hydraulic Designer. I recently heard of some health care facilities in Australia that are removing their drinking water fountains and supplying their patients and...

By Grant Steinback - Electrical Building Services Specialist. When undertaking an aged care development or redevelopment, deciding what communications technology to incorporate during the planning phase can be overwhelming. With...

By Koroush Keshavarz - Senior Associate-Principal Fire Engineer. With so many lives lost in the recent Grenfell Tower fire, serious questions are beginning to be asked of the building management...